Story Theme: CARMILLA/ HOLLSTEIN AU

CHAPTER 1:Unwanted.

Laura's POV.

It's 11:44 pm on a cold and brisk Sunday, autumn night. Meanwhile whilst most people are at home, watching Netflix with their friends, or, you know with their boyfriend or a girlfriend or whatever, i, the bored and mildly intimidated girl am doing the opposite.

Tonight Kirsch invited me to go to a party with him at this really huge house - so big it could possibly be a slightly downsized mansion. Now, onto my earlier dilemma. Laf had invited me to go and hang out with them and Perry on the same night that Kirsch, so eagerly and desperately also invited me hang with him. So now here i am at this majorly iconic party, that i obviously did not want to come to.. and pretty much the only reason that i came is because it looked like Kirsch was about to cry - and i don't particularly feel like seeing that, so, yeah. Here i am.

On the upside there's alcohol here so, not that bad of a party.

Everyone's talking to people, all in separate points of the room. In one corner there's the zeta dudes, rating girls on their appearances on a scale from 1 to 10, like the judgemental and shallow people they are - except from Kirsch, trying to get a word in about how he thinks differently, only to be interrupted and shut down completely by Theo.

Then basically everywhere else are people that I've never talked to in my life, probably because they're popular and i am most definitely not.

I've been here for a total of 35 minutes and not one person has talked to me. The first things i did when i stepped into the party was grabbing a bottle of Malibu and finding the first couch that wasn't being used for make out session's between horny couples.

I plan on sitting here on this comfy, leopard print, velvet couch for the entirety of the party.

Oh wait crap. Forget that. Suddenly i feel the contents of that nice, opened bottle of Malibu i found on the side rise from out of my stomach and into my mouth.

Luckily there's a plant right beside me - sorry house occupiers.

I feel like i'm going to collapse, so i go and try to find Kirsch. Not the best idea.

I now know it was not the best idea because i just knocked two people into each other by accident. I can't see Kirsch anywhere, and the zetas have moved from their corner and i don't know where they could be.

Everything in my sight is blurry and i can feel the rise and fall of my breathing getting faster. I'm not great in situations like this, especially because i usually have a friend by my side to help me out, unlike Kirsch. Where the hell is he?! Why did he ask me to come if he wasn't going to spend any point at all in the party talking to me?! Right now i'm too delirious to focus on being mad at Kirsch. Instead i should just focus on getting outside and calling my dad to come and pick me up. Okay, step one: dodge out of the way of people dancing and get out the front door. Boom, done. Step two: call my dad and ask him to pick me up? Not boom. I can't get any signal.

From here I've got two options. One - Ask someone if i can borrow their phone to call my dad. Two - Stumble my way home drunkenly on a 20 minute trip and hope i don't pass out. I decide that option one sounds best.

Outside of the house where i am it's quite well lit by the street lamps, so i can see that there's roughly over about 15 people out here. One girl, with jet black, wavy hair and a black leather jacket is lent up against a wall of the house. She's staring and tapping away at her phone aimlessly with her hair covering her face. I take a deep breath and decide to go ask her.

"Hey!" i say feeling extremely awkward.

The girl looks up from her phone, her hair now being pushed back revealing her face.

"Uh, hey? Do i know you?" the girl asks confusedly.

Laura looks down at the ground feeling suddenly discouraged.

"Uh, n-no, you uh don't, i just wanted to ask you if i could maybe borrow your phone to call my dad. My phone isn't picking up any signal and it looked like you were texting someo-" Laura is interrupted by a sudden outburst of shouting from a girl walking up to the girl of whom she was currently asking a favor.

"Hey, who the fuck's this nerd, Carmilla?" asked the loud girl.

The girl who is believed to be called Carmilla suddenly looks uneasy.

"Uh, i- i don't know, she just came up to me and started asking me questions."

"Well, whatever, i don't like her, so tell her to get her scrawny dork ass out of here before i make her myself."

The loud girl retreats back over to the group of people she was with before she interrupted Laura.

"Sorry about that" Carmilla says apologetically.

"Uh, i- it's fine" i say like that girl didn't just scare the living hell out of me.

"Seriously though, don't mind her, she's just drunk. Now, uh...what were you saying before?"

"I was just asking if i could borrow your phone because mine's got no signal, and i need to call my dad to pick me up, so uh.. can i borrow your phone please?"

Even though i ask this sounding a teeny tiny bit confident, i am 100% not. I can just imagine the words of her refusing to lend her phone to someone as insignificant as me, and the questioning of how i even have the nerve to speak to someone as important as her.

"Sure. Here you go"

She passes her phone over into my hands.

"Oh, uh, thanks, thank you" i say in genuine disbelief that this is not some sort of prank and that she's not going call over one of her friends to beat me up for 'stealing her phone'.

Bewilderingly my belief is false. I call my dad, no problem, ask him to pick me up, and hand the phone back over with a simple "Thanks" .

"No problem" Carmilla says nonchalantly.

20 minutes pass by and Laura's dad is pulled up on the curb in the car waiting for Laura to get in. Laura hops into the passenger seat and straps in. Her dad accelerates and proceeds to travel back home.

In the car Laura had fallen asleep, and how she knows this is because she was abruptly awoken by her dad shaking her gently by her shoulder and not so quietly telling her to get up.

"Unhh, what?" Laura says aggravatingly from being pulled out of her drunken slumber.

"Honey, i can't carry you into the house, you're too heavy, so i'm going to need you to get out of the car and stand up please" Laura's dad says sweetly.

Laura steps out of the car and clumsily smacks her dad in the face out of a failed attempt of grabbing onto him for support.

Laura laughs before apologizing for accidentally hitting him.

Laura's dad guides her into the house and pulls her upstairs, then tucks her into bed before getting her a glass of water and resting it on her bedside table.

"Goodnight" Laura's dad says without a reply because she's already fallen back to sleep.

End of chapter 1.

Notes: Hello! If you actually read all of this and are now reading this message from me, the writer, i'd just like to say that i'm totally open to constructive criticism on how to make my fanfiction better. So if you think that this first chapter was kinda shitty, comment on how i could make it better. Also note that this is literally the first fanfiction story I've ever wrote so, uh, yeah. Thanks if you actually read this. - Emily.